The Cords of the Wicked
A song of ascents.
Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth— Psa 124:1Hos 11:1Jer 2:2Exo 1:12-14Psa 120:1Psa 122:1Psa 126:1Psa 127:1
let Israel now declare—
many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, 2Co 4:8-9Mat 16:18Psa 34:19Rev 12:8-9Jhn 16:33Psa 118:13Psa 125:1Psa 42:1
but they have not prevailed against me.
The plowmen plowed over my back; Isa 51:23Psa 141:7
they made their furrows long.
The LORD is righteous; Psa 119:137Lam 3:22Dan 9:7Neh 9:33Psa 124:6-7Ezr 9:15Psa 140:5-11Lam 1:18
He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.
May all who hate Zion Isa 37:35Psa 71:13Est 6:13Isa 10:12Isa 37:22Psa 83:4-11Zec 12:31Co 16:22
be turned back in shame.
May they be like grass on the rooftops, Psa 37:22Ki 19:26Isa 37:27Jer 17:5-6Mat 13:6Psa 92:7
which withers before it can grow,
unable to fill the hands of the reaper, Gal 6:8Isa 17:10-11Psa 126:6Hos 8:7
or the arms of the binder of sheaves.
May none who pass by say to them, Rut 2:4Psa 118:26
“The blessing of the LORD be on you;
we bless you in the name of the LORD.”